About a year ago I took up Photography as a hobby, and find it a lot of fun. I subscribed to your magazine to learn more about this hobby. I have not been disappointed yet, but the September issue had a surprise for me. In "Pix-Quiz," question 3, you say in effect that “physical development” is a system of development in which the film is processed first in hypo, and then in developer.

CHARLES H. COOPER, staff photographer for the Herald-Sun Papers, Durham, N. C., captured all three prizes in the Miss North Carolina Photo Contest, sponsored by the North Carolina Jaycees, for the purpose of bringing State and National recognition to Miss North Carolina.

By the Publications Committee, American Society of Magazine Photographers

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Several months ago the ASMP reported a highly important decision by the Supreme Court in which THOMAS P. LAKE, a professional free-lance photographer specializing in landscapes, was awarded a judgment against Railway Express Agency of over $4,000 for the loss of 43 sheets of exposed but undeveloped color transparencies.

Let’s try another of Popko’s interesting quiz sessions. Below are three photo queries that should make you think. Turn up the darkroom lights, take a last look around, and go to it. Place a check in the box opposite what you think is the correct answer to each question.

Ektachrome Replenishes. At long last, Kodak has come through with replenishes for the two critical Ektachrome Film processing solutions—first developer and color developer. Although replenishment does not prolong the useful life of the basic solutions, the addition of replenisher to the two developers after each batch of exposed material has been processed permits up to 40 square feet of Ektachrome film to be put through before the basic solutions must be discarded and mixed fresh again.

WHETHER you consider the rich hues of autumn leaves or almost any other subject, color presents special photographic problems. If you are using color film this fact is easy to understand, but color is just as important when you are shooting in black-and-white.

RIZEWINNING PRINTS from POPULAR PHOTOGRAPHY Contests comprise these Salons, and represent some of the finest examples of contemporary photography. The Salons are available to clubs, stores, libraries, and other organizations open to the general public.

JUDGING of the big 1950 Picture Contest is nearly completed, and the winners are being selected from a group of several hundred photographs that survived repeated examinations and eliminations during the past weeks. It is estimated that entries numbered well over the 52,000 mark established in the 1948 competition.

An idea, careful planning, and masterful camera technique were combined by Ray Manley of Tucson to produce this “impossible’ picture. Here is the story of how it was taken

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ONCE IN A WHILE you come across a picture that couldn’t possibly be taken—but there it is. Desert Moon is a photograph like that. It began with an idea in the mind of Ray Manley, Tucson free lance, but it took a lot of planning and attention to detail to bring that original idea to colorful fulfillment.

Subject matter abounds there—from the quiet and charming to the colorful and exciting. Pre-plan your way to a successful picture tour

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LOU JACOBS

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ON YOUR coming trip to Mexico, you will want to photograph that charming and colorful country for yourself, and perhaps for the pleasure of your family and friends when you return. If you haven’t been there before, you aren’t sure what you will come upon or what to look out for. Even if you have, you will enjoy this armchair photo tour.

A trio of specialists train their cameras on fashions of the future to entertain fellow magazine photographers and guests at a novel party

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PERIODICALLY the American Society of Magazine Photographers, stimulated by a reasonable desire to bolster its treasury, institutes a shindig in keeping with its unique and zany character. This year it was called Fashions of 1975 for no more logical reason than that it would give Life—one of its more opulent clients—a screwball picture feature in return for which the magazine would drop a sizable contribution into the Society’s till.

Surface, color and tone are truly important factors that can determine the success of your finished picture

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CHESTER EDMONDS

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ARE you searching for an angle to spruce up your prints and enlargements this winter? Better look to your paper shelf—maybe a few additions could add that desired sparkle. You probably have a favorite paper, and it undoubtedly serves you well.

A good picture can contain more than one interesting composition. Look what six experts found in the above print

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EDNA R. BENNETT

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SOMETIMES you can find a picture within a picture—a little gem that would sparkle more brightly alone than as a part of the whole scene. Too often we overlook the opportunities that cropping provides for making better pictures from our negatives.

How to create personalized Christmas gifts and learn intriguing photographic processes for printing pictures on anything

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KEN MURRAY

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YOU CAN increase your share of the fun of photography, and at the same time develop some clever Christmas gift possibilities, by learning to print pictures on things other than the customary photo paper. It is possible to sensitize porous materials like cloth and paper, and then to print on them directly.

John Rawlings’ creative genius makes his work with the nude an inspirational guide to all photographers

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BRUCE DOWNES

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THIS is about 2,000 negatives, one girl and a mature photographer’s approach to the nude as a picture subject. Although the nude always has played a fairly prominent role in photography its practical value to the student remains controversial.

The camera is a wonderful thing but it can’t think. As you learn to use its basic techniques you enjoy more and more of the fun of photography

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TRIPPING the shutter is easy, but did you ever stop to think how many things affect the picture you get? Even with the simplest of box cameras which provide fixed focus, aperture, and shutter speed, the photographer must consider how the subject is lighted, choose his own camera angle, and make his exposure at just the right instant to capture the effect he wants.

THESE striking portraits by Yousef Karsh were selected from his newer photographs made in the United States and on a recent tour of Europe. Karsh of Ottawa needs no introduction to the world today, for his living portraits of distinguished men and women have brought him universal fame.

Take your camera to the football game where thrills and spills will provide you with exciting pictures

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DICK TURNER

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CHARLES POALILLO

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DON’T envy those spectacular football pictures you see in your local newspapers. You have just as good an opportunity to shoot them as any press photographer! While amateurs are not allowed. on the field at major college and professional games, local high schools and small colleges usually are delighted to have you cover their contests in return for a few prints for the school paper or yearbook.

A fresh approach is revealed in photographs recently added to the collection of the Museum of Modern Art

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BRUCE DOWNES

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IN LATE summer The Museum of Modern Art in New York placed on exhibition more than a hundred newly acquired photographs by 51 American photographers. In so doing Edward Steichen revealed further the nature of the museum’s permanent collection as it takes shape.

Pep up your films with this simple device that makes dolls and stick figures come alive

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I. G. EDMONDS

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LIKE to really lay ’em in the aisle of your living room theater? Then include an animated sequence in your next movie production. A little homemade Mickey Mouse is a guaranteed hit. You’re not an artist? You don’t have to be! Hollywood awes us with tales of their artists slaving months at the drawing board to animate their inkpot Gables and Grables, but there’s a simple short cut for those of us who can’t draw a straight line with a ruler.

A curious amateur took a picture of a hole in the ground, and wound up in the construction photo business.

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ALDEN STAHR

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NOT LONG after I bought a camera and ventured into amateur photography, I took a picture of an excavation near my home. A week or so later that excavation had men working in it, so I took pictures of them at work. Before I could have the negatives processed, the construction company working on that job asked me for 8x10 prints.

Under the direction of Harry A. Goldstein, long-time graphic arts mentor, students taking photographic instruction at Tucson (Ariz.) Senior High School are enjoying the use of facilities and equipment which are among the nation's best.

A GERMAN MINIATURE featuring built-in flash synchronization is being imported into this country by The Bennett Co., 837 Howard St., San Francisco 3, Calif. The new Finetta Model 1VD 35-mm camera is equipped with a coated 43-mm anastigmat f/4 lens and a shutter having speeds from 1/25 to 1/100 second and B.